Wet Room Conversion in Hanley
Full bathroom installations, project-managed by one local team.
A wet room is a bathroom with no line between shower and floor — one waterproofed surface, one drain, no tray, no screen. In a Hanley property it usually goes into a smaller room where a shower-cubicle-plus-bath layout has always felt cramped.
We form the floor with pre-fall boards, tank the entire room with a sheet membrane, run the drain to a proper gravity waste, and finish in R11 tile. No corners cut on the waterproofing — the tanking is what stops a leak eating the ceiling below.
What makes bathroom fitting in Hanley different from a generic install is how we plan around the building it's going into.
Our wet room conversion process in Hanley
Here's how the job actually runs in your house:
- 1Day 1 for a Hanley job — snagging walk-through, sealing and full clean down before handover.
- 2Day 2 for a Hanley job — free home survey to measure, photograph and talk through your options.
- 3Stage 3 on site at Hanley: second-fix of sanitaryware, brassware and shower screens.
- 4Stage 4 on site at Hanley: wall and floor tiling by hand, including diamond-cut details.
- Aqua-boarded walls in wet zones rated to BBA standard, used in Hanley installs.
- Anti-slip vinyl or LVT click flooring on resilient sub-base, used in Hanley installs.
Wet Room Conversion FAQs — Hanley
- Can any Hanley room become a wet room?
- Most can — timber floors need decoupling and often joist strengthening, concrete slabs are ideal. We survey the floor before quoting on any Hanley conversion.
- Is a screen ever fitted?
- Optional — a fixed glass panel keeps spray off the WC on many Hanley layouts. Full open wet rooms without a panel work best in rooms over 3m long.
- How long does a wet room conversion take?
- 10–14 working days end to end: strip, form, tank (with cure time), tile, second-fix. Slower than a bathroom refit because tanking has to cure properly.
- How much does a wet room cost in Hanley?
- £7,500–£13,500 typically for a full conversion including formed floor, tanking, linear drain, tile, WC and vanity. Fixed after survey.
- How quickly can you start a job in Hanley?
- Lead time is usually two to five weeks from a confirmed quote, depending on the spec and our current schedule across the Staffordshire side.
- How long does a full bathroom in Hanley typically take?
- A standard family bathroom in Hanley is usually 7 – 12 working days from strip-out to handover, depending on tiling area and structural changes.
About Hanley
Locally, Hanley is part of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's area within Staffordshire, covering postcodes ST1. Hanley is the city centre — apartments above shops, conversions of former pottery buildings, plus tight rows of terraces in Shelton and Northwood. Quick to reach off A500 and A53 — useful when we're surveying several jobs in a morning.
What we build into every {town} wet room
What we commit to on every wet room conversion job in Hanley:
- Sheet-membrane tanking with taped joints on every wet room (standard on every Hanley wet room conversion install).
- Pre-fall boards used, no mortar-only falls (standard on every Hanley wet room conversion install).
- Sectors served include landlords, lettings agents and private homeowners — proven across Hanley.
- Reviewed and recommended on local community boards on every install we run in Hanley.
- Time-served plumbers and tilers on every job on every install we run in Hanley.
Where {town} wet rooms fail
Homeowners converting a bathroom into a fully tanked wet room in Hanley hit a recurring set of issues with wet room conversion:
Wet rooms 'tanked' with paint-only systems and no primer — flagged regularly on Hanley jobs.
Trays hidden under tile instead of a properly formed floor — flagged regularly on Hanley jobs.
Linear drains sunk with mortar 'falls' instead of pre-fall boards — flagged regularly on Hanley jobs.
Old cast-iron waste runs that throttle drainage on a new shower, particularly in Hanley properties of this age.
Around Hanley this shows up as original lath-and-plaster walls that flex under modern tile weight.
Convert your Hanley bathroom to a wet room
Free survey, formed floor, full membrane tanking. Call 01782 901390.
- Free home survey and fixed-price quote
- Written workmanship guarantee on every fit
- Trusted across Staffordshire for over a decade
Wet room conversions across Hanley — formed, fully tanked, linear-drained and finished R11.